Analysis of discontinuity effects in development a fully integrated millimeter wave receiver front end

Author

Wu, Liang ; Hou, Yang ; Qian, Rong ; Sun, Xiaowei

Author_Institution

RF&Microwave Lab., Shanghai Inst. of Microsyst. & Inf. Technol., Shanghai, China

fYear

2009

fDate

2-4 Dec. 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

This paper analyzes two of the most important discontinuity effects of the transmission line in MMIC design. Both the marginal effect and discontinued ground plane have been considered to avoid deterioration of the circuit. A fully integrated receiver front end MMIC chip which is constructed with a three stage low noise amplifier cascaded with a resistive mixer for millimeter wave down conversion application has been achieved by using above mentioned analysis results of discontinuity effects. This multifunctional chip operates at RF frequency range from 24 GHz to 40 GHz, IF frequency up to 1 GHz.

Keywords

MMIC; low noise amplifiers; microwave mixers; millimetre wave receivers; MMIC chip; MMIC design; circuit deterioration; discontinuity effect; frequency 24 GHz to 40 GHz; fully integrated millimeter wave receiver front end; low noise amplifier; marginal effect; millimeter wave down conversion; resistive mixer; transmission line; Circuits; Frequency; Inductance; Low-noise amplifiers; MMICs; Millimeter wave communication; Millimeter wave radar; Millimeter wave technology; PHEMTs; Signal design; Millimeter wave; discontinuity effect; down converter; multifunctional MMIC;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electrical Design of Advanced Packaging & Systems Symposium, 2009. (EDAPS 2009). IEEE

Conference_Location

Shatin, Hong Kong

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5350-4

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-5351-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EDAPS.2009.5403975

Filename

5403975